Christian Jaeger writes: > I'm quite a bit tired of all those 20-second-or-so almost-freeze > times when untarring a big file, filtering a bunch of mails in Eudora > under MOL, etcetc, just because the kernel 2.4.18 virtual memory > infrastructure is paging, sorting and freeing memory or whatever and > meanwhile also blocking processes from running that aren't involved > in the memory stuff (and hey, I'm having 256MB, so it's not so little > ok?). I'm even suspecting that the X crashes I'm having at least > every few weeks could be related to this, i.e. some time sensitive > operation in the X server gets stuck because of the kernel slowness > and makes X crash (because of some bug that would be hidden > otherwise). > > So my question: > > What are your experiences on PPC with the various lowlatency,
in the 2.5.xx kernel > preemption and maybe also O(1)scheduler patches? in the 2.5.xx kernel > Which ones are working, or crashing, and which is the best for my situation? Rik van Riel's rmap patches might help you greatly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
